Stephen Miller clashed with CNN’s Boris Sanchez on Monday after the host asked about Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) accusing the Trump administration of sending federal immigration agents to Chicago to target people of color.
Pritzker — in a CNN appearance on Sunday — hit back at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s claims that Chicago is a “war zone,” stressing that the Trump administration is making the city into one and pointing to agents checking for Black and brown people’s “credentials” instead of going after “the bad guys.”
“Is it the case that, as Pritzker frames it, you are profiling brown people? That this immigration crackdown is designed to go after people of color?” Sanchez asked the senior White House aide.
The governor’s remarks arrived less than a week after a violent, early morning raid in the South Shore neighborhood where agents zip-tied residents, pulled children — some naked — out of their apartments, and separated families.
Miller — who described Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) efforts to bar federal immigration agents from conducting operations on city property as “domestic terrorism” — laughed off Sanchez’s ask.
